Sense patterns and help develop emergent work and learning practices. We started using Elgg for an online medical community of practice in 2004 after going through dozens of platforms. Tags: InternetTime Learning Technology Step Two, or a concurrent step, would be to look at how to enhance collaboration. Does your LMS do this? MORE >>

We need to skill-up for emergent and novel practices and that means a completely different mindset toward work. This brings into question the rationale for practices such as: Mass training with standard performance objectives for everyone. My colleagues and I have been examining these trends and testing new practices for over a decade. MORE >>

This captures so much of what we wrote about in Digital Habitats – and lives out an important aspect of communities of practice: reification. Reification is the process of capturing or making solid some bit of knowledge or practice from a CoP. Tags: Digital Habitats communities of practice technology stewardship MORE >>

I had an interesting conversation the other day about whether there’s that much new going on in eLearning here in 2010. That said – I’m still under the impression that my central eLearning Predictions for 2010 is going to come true. At the end of the year, we will be saying: “Wow, 2010 was a crazy year!” eLearning Technology. MORE >>

Here is another in a series of session notes for  KM World 2010  and  Enterprise Search Summit 2010. He was in the role of running community knowledge sharing sessions and there was no technology involved. attended the session, 10 Principles for Successful CoPs. Here is the session description. My notes follow. MORE >>